Christopher Buckleywas born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor of Esquire magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of Forbes FYImagazine (now ForbesLife), where he is now editor-at-large.

He is the author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work,God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A MemoirandThank You For Smoking,which was made into a movie in 2005. Most have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

He has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The Washington Monthly, Forbes, Esquire, Vogue, Daily Beast and other publications.

He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Scott Timberg writes about music, books and the arts for Salon, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He runs the blog TheMisreadCity.com, devoted to West Coast culture, mostly.